Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department: Church History Research Team / ERC Sovereignty

Address: 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street

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PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH

Trenčín (Czechoslovakia), 25.02.1986

QUALIFICATIONS

01/09/2010 – 16/05/2016 Doctor of Philosophy Degree (History), History Department, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, Dissertation: Cultural history of Catholic Nationalism in Slovakia (1985-1993), Supervisor: Prof. James Mark

01/2012 – 10/2012. Associate Fellow of the Higher Academy of Education (Higher Academy of Education, United Kingdom) Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Certificate

01/09/2009 -31/06/2010 MLitt Degree in Central and Eastern European Studies, University of St Andrews, School of History, United Kingdom, Master´s thesis: Protest Pilgrimages: Public Resistance of the Slovak Secret Church, 1984-1985)

01/2005- 31/08/2008- BA Political Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

01/09/2016 – 31/12/2016 Diploma: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Europe: Modern Challenges, Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

contemporary cultural, social and intellectual history of religion in Central Eastern Europe, history of church-state relations and religious nationalism, cultural and intellectual history of postwar Czechoslovakia

PROJECTS

ERC project, Negotiating Sovereignty: Challenges of Secularism and Nation Building in Central Eastern Europe since 1780, led by Dr. András Fejérdy – I work as a research fellow since August 2024. My focus is on cultural and intellectual history of church-state and church-nation relations as materialised in the negotiations on and practices of oaths of allegiance to the Czechoslovak state from, the state´s founding in 1918.

PUBLICATIONS: 

• “Katholizismus und slowakischer Nationalismus im 20. Jahrhundert – Die Erschaffung des »Volkskatholizismus«” In Handbuch der Religions- und Kirchengeschichte der Slowakei im 20. Jahrhundert. 1st edition, edited by Martin Zückert, 285-308, Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024.  
• “Katolíci a sociálna kohézia na Slovensku: Historická (seba)viktimizácia a historická (seba)reflexia. In Súdržnosť na Slovensku : Čo drží krajinu pokope a na čom sa rozpadá? Edited by Pavol Kosnáč and Hugo Gloss. 218-239, Bratislava: DEKK Inštitút, 2023.  
• “The Martyrdom of Jozef Tiso: The Entanglements of the Sacred and Secular in Post-War Catholic Memories,” In Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective, edited by Zuzanny Bogumił and Yuliya Yurchuk, 133-155, London, New York: Routledge, 2022. 
• “Catholicism and National Communism in Late Socialist Slovakia. In After Utopia: Czechoslovak Normalization between Experiment and Experience, 1968-1989, edited by Christiane Brenner and Michal Pullmann, 211-241, Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG, 2022.
• “Just A Simple Priest: Remembering Cooperation with the Communist State in the Catholic Church in Postcommunist Slovakia,” In Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe, edited by Apor, Péter, Sándor Horváth, and James Mark, 287-308, New York: Anthem Press, 2017.
• "Národ" v diskurze skrytej cirkvi na Slovensku v 80. rokoch [Discussion on the 'Nation' within the Clandestine Church in the 80s in Slovakia]. In Skryté pôsobenie cirkví na Slovensku v rokoch 1948-1989, edited by Pavol Jakubčin, 260-273, Bratislava: Ústav pamäti národa, 2018.
• “Katolíci a národná kultúra počas normalizácie [Catholics and National Culture during Normalisation (Current Research Perspectives)]. In Obraz a odraz osobnosti modernej doby edited by Slavomír Michálek, 469-482. Bratislava: VEDA, vydavateľstvo SAV, 2019.

Peer reviewed articles in scientific journals:

•  “National Past and Postdissident Catholic Moral Reasoning in Slovakia,” East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, FORTHCOMING, September 2024.
• “Čo znamená národ pre katolíkov na Slovensku? (Prístupy a metodológie po kultúrnom obrate a postkonfesionálnej kritike) [What does "nation" mean to Catholics in Slovakia? (Approaches and methodologies after the cultural turn and post-confessional critique]. In Historický časopis, vol. 67(2019): 385-411.
• “Trust in the Church Hierarchy among the Underground Church Community in Post-1968 Slovakia,” Forum historiae, Vol. 15 (2021): 104-122.
•  “Pátrání po katolících v nejnovějších dějinách katolické církve na Slovensku = The Search for Catholics in the Recent History of the Catholic Church in Slovakia. SALVE, Vol.33 (2023): 125-133.